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Contents:
- SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
- CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
- GAY MARRIAGE
SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE REACH ALL-TIME HIGH, SURVEY FDS
California voters will be asked to affirm gay marriage rights on the 2024 ballot followg Prop. 8 ncerns about the state nstutn. * gay marriage poll *
A small mory of Amerins (27%) supported legal regnn of gay and lbian marriag 1996, when Gallup first asked the qutn. For the First Time, a Small Majory of Republins Support Gay Marriage.
This uld suggt that support for gay marriage has reached a ceilg for this group, at least for now. Adults, who were once holdouts support for gay marriage, now e down on the same si of the issue as young adults.
Hodg cisn, public support for legalizg gay marriage cracked the 60% level, and last year reached the 70% mark for the first time. Risg natnal support for legal same-sex marriage reflects steady creas among most subgroups of the populatn, even those who have tradnally been the most ristant to gay marriage. Amerins who report that they attend church weekly rema the primary mographic holdout agast gay marriage, wh 40% favor and 58% opposed.
CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
While Pope Francis' ments supportg same sex civil unns were a drastic shift Catholic church guidance, U.S. Catholics have supported gay marriage for about a . * gay marriage poll *
Young adults, Democrats among the groups most supportive of gay marriage.
Public support for legally regnizg gay marriag has been nsistently above 50% sce the early 2010s. Hodg cisn, public support for legalizg gay marriage cracked the 60% level. Today, majori of all but two key subgroups -- Republins (49%) and weekly churchgoers (41%) -- say gay marriag should be legally regnized.
Republin support for gay marriage has hovered around the 50% mark sce 2020, wh slight majori backg 2021 and 2022. Like all other subgroups, weekly churchgoers (41%) are more supportive of gay marriage now than they were the prev two s.
GAY MARRIAGE
Gay marriage beme the law of the land after the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell cisn, and Print Joe Bin signed bipartisan legislatn to ward off future judicial attempts at undog s legaly late last year.
Among many groups -- cludg olr adults, Prottants and rints of the South -- perspectiv on gay marriage have gone om majory opposn to majory support over the urse of Gallup’s trend spanng more than a quarter of a century. More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%). The rults, released Monday, found jt 28 percent of rponnts oppose the right of gay upl to wed.
Support creased among this group, acrdg to PRRI, which found 41 percent of whe evangelils supported gay marriage a 2019 survey. Proponents outnumbered opponents for the first time 2009 — 49 percent to 46 percent — acrdg to an ABC News/Washgton Post numbers ntued to climb, pecially after the Supreme Court enshred the eedom of gay upl to marry natnwi 2015’s Obergefell v. Sce Gallup's ial measure on support for gay marriage 1996, when 27% backed , the percentage of U.